When I was seventeen I was chasing after dreams In southport I had to get away Or end up in a nursing home alone When I was seventeen I had a special
There are many who have laid with me Then got up and walked away from me And played around with me like I was a game Every night was a one night fling
(Race of Abel) Eat, sleep and drink God smiles on you contentedly (Race of Cain) In filth and stink grovel And die wretchedly (Race of Abel) Your sacrifice
Why can't I be on my own Just me and the world alone Oh why can't I be on my own Just me and the world alone Oh why is the world filled with people It
We find love, you and I It's a new game to play Then we tell our first lie And see a love go away And we find We're alone We rush on, you and I We don
Every morning Now I pray The phantom pains Not to come again A million tears To slip away And take the vessel Of my blame We have got to brave the storm
You kissed my grateful skin And left a chain of bites and bruises I'm sorry when you grin Almost diamonds for the losers I'll swim inside your tears And
I just can't get enough I just can't get enough And I wake up And it's there like a freezing cloud Passing over the sun And I open my eyes I'm not moving
Wild wild child of the London night Prowling under cover of the city lights Waiting for a chance to strike, strike, strike You're gonna strike at my heart
Searching through the memory books Of photographs your lovers took Why play the game of place the pain When you end up feeling just the same anyway Sleep
He's bringing trouble A suitcase of heartache Another sad scene on the way He wears a necklace of tears A string of bright trophies Throwing a new love
Don't shut your eyes When they're lighting up the skies I just want to see them shine And I cannot take my mind off you Halo of fire In my heart there
I'm praying at my bedroom shrine Saying the words to make you mine All the candles and the flowers To brighten up my lonely hours Wishing you were in
Sunday morning going slow I'm talking to the radio Clothes and records on teh floor Memories of the night before Out in clubland having fun Now I'm hiding
A little bitter A little sweet That's how I like my life to be I'll take it neat Bitter sweet That's how I see the world I like the rain I like the dark
Black kiss Kiss deep Inside Your sleep Dark love You crave Black kiss I gave Black kiss Inspire Cold heart On fire Black kiss Red rose Where no One goes
Love Is a beautiful brutal thing It sings at night like the wind It stings your heart like a whip It rocks your soul like a ship And love Is a beautiful
I really must stop always being the child Chasing his youth his heart, nose to the wind I really must cure my tender nostalgia Bury deep my stars beneath
